DMPs can serve as heuristic models for actual DML astrophysical systems – such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies and galaxy groups – if not in their details, at least in the general scaling relations that these models obey, and which I discuss.
For example – as I discuss in some detail here – they show the strong correlation between the central-surface-densities of baryons and of the putative dark matter halo, pointed to and considered for galaxies in Refs. [1]}, [2]}, [3]}.
